Science Fiction Awards Watch

The results of this year’s Bram Stoker Awards have just been announced at the World Horror Convention in Brighton, England.
Tanith Lee and James Herbert have been named Grand Masters.
Basil Copper, Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan received Lifetime Achievement Awards. (Update: see comment below for the distinction between Copper’s award and the ones given to [...]

The Bram Stoker Awards have received a bit of a bashing in various parts of the blogosphere. Alethea Kontiss doesn’t like their voting system. And Rose Fox is worried that they are too parochial.
We must admit that we were a little surprised at their short lists. Here are a few 2009 horror novels that didn’t [...]

It is a busy day for award short lists. The final ballot for the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards has been released. You can see the whole thing here. The novel short list is as follows:

Audrey’s Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)
Patient Zero, Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Quarantined, Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
Cursed, Jeremy Shipp (Raw [...]

The long list for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards has been announced. You can see the full list here.

According to SF Scope, the Horror Writers Association (the folks responsible for the Bram Stoker Awards) will be giving their 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award to Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan. They have also pre-announced the winner of their Specialty Press Award: Tartarus Press. These awards will be presented at the Stoker Award banquet at [...]

The Bram Stoker Award Winners for 2009 were announced last night in Burbank. We couldn’t be there, but other people were and SF Scope has been following developments on Twitter. Stephen King won two awards, including the Superior Achievement in a Novel award for Duma Key.

Sci Fi Wire (or possibly SyFy Wyre, who knows) has the list of nominees for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards.

The Bram Stoker Awards have been announced at this year’s World Horror Convention. There doesn’t appear to be anything official online, and you can’t link direct to a new item on the Locus site, so here is Locus’s list of the winners:

Novel: The Missing, Sarah Langan
First Novel: Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill
Long Fiction: “Afterward, There Will [...]

SF Scope reports that this year’s Bram Stoker Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on TV over the Internet. That’s quite a coup for the Stokers. Here’s hoping that other awards manage to do the same sort of thing.

The nominee lists for this year’s Bram Stoker Awards are now available. Ellen Datlow has the full list. There are also two Lifetime Achievement awards announced, for John Carpenter and Robert Weinberg.

The Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards has been released. Ellen Datlow has the details.
It is probably worth pointing out that, as with the Nebulas, this is a Preliminary Ballot. The works on it are not yet “nominees”. Not that this will stop people claiming that they are, but we try.

Ellen Datlow reminds us that the recommendations deadlines for the Nebulas and Stokers are coming up fast. There is much good fiction out there awaiting your recommendation.